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There’s sooo much subtext with dinah and laurel, I’ve been loving it

It’s honestly kinda ridiculous? I’m very new to it, my friend’s been telling me about it for a while, I even started downloading Arrow last year, but in a time with a lot of canon f/f I was really enjoying partly because of its canonness, I couldn’t be bothered to get into something as convoluted as Arrow for its subtext (”This is a different Laurel?”

“They’re ALL Canaries??” “They BOTH have the name Dinah???”). 

But when that backdoor pilot ep was airing, even before it finished, that clip of Laurel walking into the bar just so Dinah could finish singing “I’m in love with you” like directly at her was spreading around and my friend linked it to me all excited.

Like?? That was my FIRST clip of them. That is real, true subtext, in the sense that it’s what writers genuine intend to build up to something. I watched the whole ep that night and honestly, the mistake my friend made before was never actually making me watch something of theirs, lol.

I said before that it’s still fun to get into subtext but honestly, I really meant, subtext that’ll go somewhere. I still can’t really be sure that it will, none of the other scenes really matched that first one but all put together? I could really see it. Hopefully the spinoff gets picked up and we have a chance to find out.

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I don’t even watch dctv anymore but they’re unfortunately the best at getting me invested in characters that they ultimately discard and no one really cares about lol it’s so rude. Nyssa and Maggie Sawyer are my forever dctv loves that the fandoms have long moved on from, but every time I see a new gif pop up of Nyssa she’s always pining for Sara who’s moved on a million times over and I’m like!! Why!!! Do u want to hurt her!!! And me! I get way to invested in ships that writers don’t care about

Yeah, the DCTV and even CW model as a whole is really great at creating a whole ton of fun characters, their whole model is to churn out fun genre shows with pretty people, they rely on people shipping and engaging to the level they do. I think with both those characters, it was kind of tough because they were love interests that didn’t really appear for too long, so it was expected that fandom would eventually move on, but of course as fans it would suck.

I very much understand not being able to move on from Nyssara, honestly, as super cute and appealing as Sara/Ava is and how much I would LOVE to be all up in that content, but I just can’t and have given up trying. But, I also don’t feel that angsty over Nyssara and Nyssa never moving on and what could have been. Sometimes when things are so blatantly affected by BTS decisions, they lose their weight with me (and then of course sometimes it’s the opposite, where people making awful decisions for Certain Reasons hits harder, but luckily for me this wasn’t one of those times). Maybe in different circumstances and different times, things could have been different. It’s to Nyssara’s credit that they had such little actual time but managed to be as popular and enduring a ship as they were.